The pace of digital information has resulted in the world's aggregate data doubling in size in shorter intervals than ever before. According to Gartner, about 80 percent of data held by an organization is unstructured data, made up of information from customer calls, emails and social media feeds.

Text analytics provider Temis has announced its acquisition of i3 Analytics, a medical data visualization specialist, for an undisclosed amount, in a move that buttresses Temis' position in the life sciences sector.

It’s no secret that I am a fan of the era of the empowered employee. Ever since I was introduced to the concept in 2010 at a Forrester conference, I’ve supported the notion that the groundswell of employee innovation was an important milestone and an imperative part of social

IBM’s Watson impressed us on Jeopardy in February. But can Watson cut it in a global world? IBM + Lionbridge = A Multilingual Translation Engine Lionbridge and IBM are partnering to help companies engage with global customers better and more effectively. GeoFluent, launched today, combines Lionbridge’s cloud-based language customization solution with IBM’s statistical

IBM (news, site) has just released an upgrade to the SPSS predictive analytics tool that will enable users to analyze text gathered from social media sources, including Twitter, Facebook, blogs, wikis and RSS feeds. The upgrade represents a considerable advance in the SPSS Modeler data mining and text analytics solution

Is your data wild? Unruly, even? For data in the wild, StoredIQ (news, site) lets you Analyze Anywhere. That’s the name of their new early case assessment solution (ECA) that enables users to perform early case analysis on data, well anywhere. CMSWire spoke with Ellis Ishaya, Vice President of Operations about Analyze

Have you ever wished that you had Google wired directly into your temporal lobe? Wouldn't it be great if you could just think of a question and instantly get a result?
Well, we're not quite at that frightening point, but things are moving in the general direction.